Digitized Books To a Rocky Moon
To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration
by Don E. Wilhelms. © 1993 The Arizona Board of Regents. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press.
Contents
- Front Cover
- Back Cover
- Front Matter
- Errata
- Chapter 1: A Quiet Prelude 1892–1957
- Chapter 2: The Quickening Pace 1957–1961
- Chapter 3: The Earthbound View 1961–1963
- Chapter 4: Preparing to Explore 1963–1965
- Chapter 5: The Ranger Transition 1964–1965
- Chapter 6: Back at the Main Event 1965
- Chapter 7: The Glory Days 1966
- Chapter 8: Surveyor and the Regolith 1966–1968
- Chapter 9: The View from Lunar Orbiter 1966–1967
- Chapter 10: Apollo Lifts Off 1967–1969
- Chapter 11: Tranquility Base 1969
- Chapter 12: A Western Mare? 1969
- Chapter 13: The Best-Laid Plans 1970
- Chapter 14: Promising Fra Mauro 1971
- Chapter 15: Golden Apennine-Hadley 1971
- Chapter 16: Mysterious Descartes 1972
- Chapter 17: Beautiful Taurus-Littrow 1972
- Chapter 18: Debriefing 1973–1984
- Reference Material
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Illustrations
- About the Author
